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Letter recording commodity transactions, including the purchase of wheat. Mentions a food shortage and rise in prices "and we are in a massive crisis because …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A woman gives to a man a gift consisting of two objects delivered …
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Three much damaged columns, containing about 60 names of male persons, all of low professions. The list contains no numbers and was obviously drawn up …
Three, much damaged columns, seemingly in the hand of the scribe of App. C 1, 2, containing about sixty names of male persons, recipients of …
recto (left side only)
Legal record. Only the very end is preserved. Dated: 1429 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Signed: Avraham b. Shemaʿya; Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib; ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel …
No Scholarship Records
Betrothal agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fiance: Yahaboy. Fiancee: Malīḥa. There is no payment of a first installment of the additional marriage …
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Small fragment from the end of a betrothal deed, from the year 1119, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. Published by Ashur, Engagement and Betrothal, …
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Fragment bearing the mirror imprint of a legal deed probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe. The year seems to be 1432 Seleucid (1120/21 CE).
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 1529 Seleucid, which is November 1217 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The virgin Sitt …
tafsir
Late account
Recto: draft of the opening lines of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand. Verso: Arabic alphabet practice in a rudimentary hand.
Minute fragment of a letter or legal document, Inly few word are preserved.
Fragment of a private letter. Mentions death and shrouds as part of the opening greetings. Reused on verso for a Hebrew list or text (literary).
Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Husband: name missing. Wife: Sitt al-Banāt bt. Nuʿmān ha-Kohen. Dated: Tammuz …
Responsa, Miscellaneous; recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; verso: geonic responsum concerning a bailee who attempts to cheat the depositors heirs (Hebrew + Aramaic). (Info from FGP)
Draft of the qinyan formula of a legal deed. Seems to be in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. AA
Very faded and damaged letter, from Yosef b. Ya'aqov to Avraham b. Hasan(?)
Fragment of a legal deed. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Probably a deed of a gift, involving Abū l-Jūd, Ṣedaqa, and …
Fragment from the lower right corner of an agreement between a husband, Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, and wife, Sitt al-Ḍiyāʾ. The text is …
Legal document. Fragment of a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). The wife is permitted to leave her house only with …
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Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38). Concerning the inheritance of Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi, …
Small fragment of a letter written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) on behalf of a woman. Mentions rent and possibly not wanting …
List of about 50 names in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE), including an Ibn al-Lebdi. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Minute fragment of a legal deed, only few words, mostly cut into half.
Fragment of a legal document or possibly a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~19 lines are preserved, probably from near the beginning. The first …
Court record, probably regarding a debt, between Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa and the banker (ha-shulḥani) Abū l-Ṭāhir Mevorakh b. Shela (appears also in ENA …
Very damaged list of items, probably a dowry list. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Bifolio. On the righthand page of verso …
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Letter fragment in a familiar hand from the circle of Avraham Maimonides (who might be sayyidnā mentioned in the margins). The portion preserved mainly consists …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Also signed by Natan [b. …
Small list of items, mostly textiles
Minute fragment, contains only the the names of Sitt al-Thanāʾ and Berakhot b. Sayyid [...] ha-Kohen, probably to be married. (There is a Barakāt b. …
Mirror imprint of the name Elya ha-Haver b. Aharon
Verso, probably continuing onto recto: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38), written under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (r. 1127–39). …
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–38). Involves payments in installments.
Legal document. Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Halfon b. Menashse ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38) between a Rabbanite husband named Natan ha-Levi and a Qaraite wife, …
Bottom part of a legal deed written under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (Date: 1127-1139)
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. He is agitated about something ("the knife has reached the bone"), mentions a qāḍī and appeals to ʿaṣabiyya to …
Very damaged and faded letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon f. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is better preserved than …
Few lines from a draft of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Manshshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Fragmentary letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138) informing on various business transactions including one to Dammuh. Cairo …
Minute fragment, related to marriage agreement of some kind, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). AA
Minute fragment with only few words.
Faded and damaged letter written by Yefet b, Menashshe
An interesting list of Muslim legal documents. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The names of the parties are Muslim, and the dates …
Small fragment of a legal document, probably, in Arabic script. Involving Abū l-Maʿālī b. Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn Kūshak. Mentions the year 515 AH and regular …
Very damaged small fragment of a letter probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi. Hardly readable.
Minute fragment from the top of a legal document. Name: Elazar.